The one-time Neverland ranch of the late pop star Michael Jackson has gone back up for sale with a million discount, in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, on February 26, 2019. The property originally went up for sale in 2015 for 0 million before it was reduced to million in 2017 before being taken off the market completely. It’s now available for million. Estate agent Suzanne Perkins claimed the property failed to sell in part because ‘a price tag of 0 million is not chump change.’ Her colleague Kyle Forsyth who revealed the relisting of the property had been put back due to wildfires and mud slides affecting the area. And he claimed the owners want to sell because ‘œIt’s time for new stewardship’. The listing comes just days before the broadcast of a shocking HBO documentary entitled ’Leaving Neverland’ that details the accounts of two men who say they were molested by the pop star as children. But Jackson estate lawyer Howard Weitzman claimed the timing of the sale has no relationship to the documentary and lawsuit and is entirely coincidental. Located about 40 miles from Santa Barbara in California, the 2,698 ranch is owned by a joint venture between Mr. Jackson’s estate and a fund managed by a real-estate investment trust called Colony Capital. Mr. Jackson had defaulted on a loan backed by the ranch, and Colony bought the note in 2008 and put the property’s title into a joint venture it formed with the pop star. Mr. Jackson paid .5 million for the Los Olivos property in 1987 and lived there more than 15 years, during which time he added whimsical features such a floral clock that spells out ‘Neverland’ and a train station. Those structures remain in place on the roughly 2,700-acre property, along with the roughly 12,000-square-foot main house. There are six-bedrooms, including a large first floor master bedroom suite with a private loft and two master bathrooms. The amusement park rides once installed no longer exist although the fire department build

Neverland : L’ancienne propriété de Michael Jackson vendue pour 22 millions de dollars

Situé en Californie, le « Neverland » fut le symbole d’une époque : celle de la légende Michael Jackson. Le vaste ranch fut en effet construit comme un véritable parc d’attraction, désiré par celui qui s’est toujours considéré comme un « grand enfant ».

La propriété, d’une superficie de 1100 hectares, se situe à 65 km de Santa Barbara et dispose d’une maison principale avec six chambres, trois maisons d’hôtes, un lac avec une chute d’eau, des terrains de tennis, plusieurs granges et d’un abris pour des animaux. Devenu indissociable de la star, Neverland fut également le théâtre des diverses affaires judiciaires du chanteur.

Estimé à 100 millions de dollars, son prix de vente fut abaissé l’année dernière à 31 millions de dollars par son actuel propriétaire Thomas Barrack Jr.’s Colony. Finalement, c’est le milliardaire américain Ron Burkle, ancien conseiller de Michael Jackson, qui est devenu le nouveau propriétaire de ce lieu légendaire pour un prix avoisinant les 22 millions de dollars (environ 18 millions d’euros).